Sanyuan indigo candy is one of the traditional and valuable snacks in the Sanyuan area of Shaanxi Province. It is drumstick-shaped, generally light, and the golden yellow skin is evenly covered with a layer of white sesame seeds; After biting open, inside is a snow white delicate honeycomb sugar heart.
Sanyuan indigo candy, originating in Sanyuan County, Shaanxi Province, began in the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty (1506) and has a history of more than 490 years. According to legend, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, every waxing moon, hawkers in the southern region used the local high-quality rice (that is, glutinous rice) to make rice cakes and transport them to Sanyuan and Jingyang to sell. At the end of the Year, it is inconvenient to sell the remaining rice cakes to bring back, and they are stored in the homes of relatives and friends, and hung upstairs to let them dry. After the following year, it is mashed into a stick, fried in oil and sold.
Mihara indigo sugar, its appearance is wrapped in white sugar powder and sesame seeds. It is made of fresh, high-quality glutinous rice, fine soybeans, sugar, vegetable oil, etc., accompanied by cooked sesame seeds. Its processing process is made by 24 processes such as material selection, washing, soaking, grinding, steaming, and noodles, rolling slices, rubbing strips, blank making, shading, storage, blanking, oil immersion, frying, pouring, and hanging skin. General winter blank making, four seasons processing finished products. It takes about half a year from feeding to finished product. The finished product is cylindrical, largely loose, golden skin, white flesh, silk mesh, sweet and crispy, soft and easy to melt.
Wen Yi, a Qing Kangxi jinshi, has a poem in the "Memorial Hall Manuscript": "Born of ice and snow, the heart is like a valley, the color is like a lotus root, and the flavor is told to be a man."